Beckham given chance to make a Real impression

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DAVID BECKHAM began the long road back to a place in Real Madrid’s first XI last night when, in a side full of reserve and youth-team players, he faced the Spanish third division team, Ecija, in front of 9,000 fans in the first round proper of the Spanish Cup.

The obscurity of the opposition was underlined by the pre-match comments from the Real coach, Fabio Capello, that he knew very little about them and had not seen a video of them play, but understood that their pitch was in a “terrible state”. The green, green grass of home it most